Sr. Soil Chemist & Head, Chemistry Division
UPASI Tea Research Foundation
Nirar Dam
Valparai � 642 127
Tamil Nadu
INDIA
Email: [email protected]
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Objectives Temporary / Permanent positions as Group leader/Post-doc Research Associate position in plant nutrition aspects/ basic research lab focusing on plant physiology/ Head of analytical laboratory dealing with agrochemicals and fertilisers.
.Date of Birth : 18.05.1973
Nationality : Indian
Qualification
M.Sc. in Chemistry - I class
Ph.D. in Plant Chemistry - Awarded in 2001
Diploma in Fertiliser Technology - Passed out in 2000
Diploma in Industrial Safety - Passed out in 2001
PhD Topic : Rationalisation of nitrogen and potassium manuring in relation to soil test crop response study
Awards and Honors
National Level
RL Narasimha Swamy Memorial Award (1998) for the second best Original Research Paper presented at the Plantation Crops Symposium
Campus Level
CS Venkat Ram Memorial Award (2001) for the best paper presented in the �Annual Tea Colloquium�
CS Venkat Ram Memorial Award (1999) for the second best paper presented in the �Annual Tea Colloquium�
Achievements in the present carrier
Calculation of �nutrient requirement� of tea plant which enables a saving of 15 to 16 US$ per hectare per year (which approximately adopted in 50,000 hectares) leading to a sum of US$75,000 per year by fine-tuning nitrogen and potassium fertiliser rates.
Experience
7 years and 9 months experience in plant nutrition in the following aspects
Soil fertility and rationalization of nutrients input
Nutrient Vs Soil enzyme activities
Nutrient Vs Plant enzyme activities
Nutrient Vs Quality of end product
Nutrient Vs Soil characters
Nutrient Vs Biochemical constituents of leaves
Having valid publications in all the above aspects in leading Journals like,
J. Sci. Food Agric.
Comn. Soil Sci. Pl. Anal.
Food Chemistry
J. Ind. Soc. Soil Sci.
J. Plantation Crops
Planters� Chronicle
Current position & Responsibilities
Designations : Sr. Soil Chemist & Head Chemistry Division
Projects being run : 3 major projects, involving 10 Research Scholars
One project (US $ 30,000) with Sulphate of Potash Information Board (SOPIB)
One project (US $ 26,000) with National Tea Research Foundation (Tea Board)
One project (US $ 1,67,000) with X five year plan (Ministry of commerce, Govt. of India)
Responsibilities
Identifying the most important areas (soil fertility and plant nutrition aspects) of research to enhance the productivity of tea. Developing the requirements in the form of projects and submitting the same to Govt./Private funding agencies for financial support. After getting financial support, the project (field trials) is being executed under my supervision by the specified-qualified manpower. Presenting the out come of such research results to the planters� in an open forum four times in a year and deliberating the same in front of scientists too.
In addition to that I am being an in-charge of analytical laboratory, which involves analysis of
Soil samples for fertility
Water samples for irrigation
Leaf samples for nutrient contents
Macro nutrient fertilisers
Micro nutrient fertilisers
Pesticides
Fungicides
Wetting Agents
Most of our analysis are under the accreditation of NABL with ISO 17025 Certificate
Instruments Handled
1) Gas Chromatograph (Varian, with Headspace)
2) AAS (GBC, Software controlled)
3) UV - VIS Spectrophotometer (GBC, Software controlled)
4) Flame photometer (Systronics, Elico, Hitachi)
5) Flow Injection Analyser (Tecator)
6) Auto Titrator (Orian)
7) Kjeltech Digestion System (Tecator and Gerhardt)
8) Kjeltech Distillation Unit (Tecator and Gerhardt)
9) Soxtherm (Gerhardt)
10) pH and EC meters
COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE
1) Windows 3.1 to XP
2) All versions of Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word and PowerPoint
3) All kind of statistical packages like SPSS, StatView, StatTech and StatPal
4) Installation of all kind of windows based software and trouble shooting.
Membership in professional body
Member Indian Society of Soil Science
Indian Society for plantation crops
Indian Society of Agricultural Resource Management
PUBLICATIONS
Peer reviewed scientific publications
National level
S Venkatesan DP Verma M Navaneetha Krishna Ganapathy 2003 Targeted yield equations of nitrogen for clonal teas under south Indian conditions Journal of Indian society of soil science 51(2) 178-183.
S Venkatesan S Murugesan Phosphorus fixing capacity of tea soils of Anamallais and Nilgiris Journal of Plantation crops, (In press).
P Ponmurugan S Venkatesan A Sevugaperumal 1999 Studies on lichen detoriation in higher altitude areas Ecology, Environment and Conservation 44(2) 18 -20.
N Kannan S Venkatesan 1997 Fluoride contamination in drinking water sources of some areas of Sivakasi and Aruppukottai taluks of Kamarajar District Indian Journal of Environmental Protection 17(7) 516-518.
International level
S Venkatesan MNK Ganapathy 2004 Nitrate reductase activity in tea as influenced by various levels of nitrogen and potassium fertilisers Communications in soil science and plant analysis 35 (9&10) 1283-1292.
S Venkatesan MNK Ganapathy 2004 Impact of nitrogen and potassium fertilizer application on quality of CTC teas Food chemistry 84(3) 325-328.
S Venkatesan S Murugesan MNK Ganapathy DP Verma Long-term impact of nitrogen and potassium fertilizers on yield, soil nutrients and biochemical parameters of tea. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture. (in press).
S Venkatesan S Murugesan VK. Senthurpandian MNK Ganapathy Impact of sources and doses of potassium on biochemical and greenleaf parameters of tea Food chemistry (In press)
Popular articles
S Venkatesan KV Hemalatha A Jeyakumar 2003 Evaluation and availability of micronutrients in tea soils Newsletter of UPASI Tea Research Foundation 13(2) 2
S Venkatesan 2003 Zinc sulphate application in high yielding tea fields Newsletter of UPASI Tea Research Foundation 13(1) 2
S Venkatesan R Kumaraguru 2002 Is nitrite toxic to tea plants? Newsletter of UPASI Tea Research Foundation 12(2) 3
S Venkatesan R Kumaraguru 2002 Tolerance level of sodium in MOP and zinc sulphate Newsletter of UPASI Te Research Foundation 12(1) 4
S Venkatesan MNK Ganapathy DP Verma 2001 Impact of N:K2O levels on crude fibre content of CTC black teas News Letter of UPASI Tea Research Foundation 11(1) 1.
DP Verma S Venkatesan R Premkumar UI Baby 2001 Evaluation of Kiecite-T in tea News Letter of UPASI Tea Research Foundation 10(2) 2.
DP Verma S Venkatesan 2001 Organic manures in tea Planters� Chronicle 97(March)111-119
DP Verma S Venkatesan Evaluation of soil test methods for available nitrogen. News Letter of UPASI Tea Research Foundation 10(2) 2.
Conferences/Symposia/Proceedings/Meetings
S Venkatesan 2003 Certain new developments in fertiliser application In Area Scientific Meeting Central Travancore, December 10 pp 15-18.
S Venkatesan 2003 Recent developments in fertilizer application in tea In Area Scientific Meeting Wayanad, December 4 pp 7-12.
VK Senthur Pandian S Murugesan S Venkatesan 2003 Influence of sources of potassium on productivity, drought tolerance and quality of tea In National Seminar on Advances in Agricultural Resource Management held at Killikulam p 78
S Venkatesan 2002 Certain aspects of manuring in tea In Area Scientific Meeting Central Travancore, November 20 pp 38-41.
S Venkatesan 2002 Evaluation of potassium soil test methods for tea in south India In Development in soil science Jabalpur, Indian Society of Soil Science, New Delhi.
S Venkatesan K Balasubramanian MNK Ganapathy 2002 Comparative efficacy of different sources of sulphur and silicon nutrition of tea In: Recent trends in sulphur and silicon nutrition of crops. TNAU, Madurai, Tamil Nadu p46.
S Venkatesan DP Verma J Nandhakumar MNK Ganapathy 2002 Quantitative nitrogen adjustments in clonal teas based on soil tests In: Plantation Crops Research and Development in the New Millennium. Proc. PLACROSYM XIV. eds. R. Rethinam. H.H. Khan, V.M. Reddy, P.K. Mandal and K. Suresh. Coconut Development Board, Kerala Bhavan, Kochi, India, pp. 97-101.
DP Verma N Palani K Balasubramanian R Kumaraguru S Venkatesan MNK Ganapathy 2001 Nutritional management of tea for sustainable productivity in south India In: Bulletin of UPASI Tea Research Foundation. 54: 14-33.
P Ponmurugan T Muthumani S Venkatesan. 2001 Survey of lichens in Anamallais hills. Proc state level seminar on Conservation of biodiversity � the present and future scenario March 23-24, p-18.
DP Verma S Venkatesan MNK Ganapathy 2000 Quantitative nitrogen adjustments in tea (UPASI-9) for Anamallais of south India based on soil tests, New Delhi. Proc. International Conference on Managing Natural Resources. pp.278-280
DP Verma S Venkatesan 2000 Evaluation of soil test methods of available nitrogen for tea in south India In: Recent advances in plantation crops Allied Publishers Ltd., Chennai, pp 191-198.
S Venkatesan DP Verma MNK Ganapathy 2000 Fertiliser adjustment Equation for tea (SA-6) based on soil test crop response study in Anamallais of south India. Nagpur. Proc. 65th Annual Convention of Indian Society of Soil Science. p 106.
DP Verma MNK Ganapathy S Venkatesan. 1999 Nitrogen recommendation for tea (UPASI � 9) in Anamallais of south India based on Soil Test Crop Response Study, Coimbatore Proc 64th Annual Convention of Indian Society of Soil Science p 83.
